matched!

Wow! Now that we've shared the news with many of our family and friends, I can get away with blogging about it. My wife and I were matched with our daughter this past week!!!!

We have been in the process of adopting a daughter from China for a long time now. About this time three years ago, we first began filling out paperwork. January 2006 we sent our homestudy along with many documents, forms and pictures to China and received back a log-in date (LID) of March 7, 2006. So now after 28 months of waiting to be matched, we finally received the referral for our little girl. (See my blog entry puzzle pieces from 1/26/07... who knew that at the time I was writing my daughter would be three months old?)

My daughter, Kate, is so beautiful! There's a lot we can't post online until we receive our official Letter of Acceptance (LOA)-- including her picture-- but she is absolutely amazing. I am so in love with her already! After some more paperwork gets processed, probably in about two or three months, we will travel to China to get her.

Pray for us as we prepare ourselves, our family and our home to welcome our new daughter. Ask God to give us the wisdom it takes to respond to her special circumstances and needs as she goes through this huge change in her life. Thanks!

...just wanted to share the good news :) Oh, and check out the link to Amy's blog, "Raising Tomatoes."